Richard Neutra (1892-1970) was one of the giants of 20th-century architecture. His importance to the modernist movement as a whole as well as to the rise of modernism in California cannot be overstated. Neutra was born in Austria where he studied under Adolf Loos and worked with Erich Mendelsohn. He came to the U.S. in 1923. He worked with Frank Lloyd Wright, then took up residence with his friend RM Schindler. They collaborated on several projects but eventually had a falling out over how to credit a certain work. Neutra was on the cover of Time magazine in 1949—a rarity for an architect. His most famous buildings include: the Lovell House and the VDL Residence, both in Los Angeles (the latter where he and his family lived), and the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, among others. In addition to training architects who would go on to prominence like Gregory Ain and Raphael Soriano, Neutra’s work helped spur the rise of photographer Julius Shulman. Shulman photographed many Neutra projects, each reinforcing the other’s reputation as the expert maker and chronicler of Californian modernism.

Raymond Richard Neutra is a physician epidemiologist who currently heads the division of the California Department of Public Health that investigates emerging environmental and occupational health threats. His 40-year career in public health was stimulated by the library and visitors of his architect father, Richard Neutra, who was interested in how the built environment affects the health and well-being of its inhabitants. Thus Richard’s library was full of books on physiology and biology and his contacts included people such as Hans Selye, the scientist who started stress research. A few years ago, Raymond started writing snippets of memoir-essays about his adventures in public health and about his family. His piece for the July/August 2007 issue is a half-century-old psychological study on creative architects that was part rumination on his father and part speculation on how societal contexts let remarkable people discover and nurture their unique combination of skills.

He may not be as famous as Richard Neutra or Rudolf Schindler, but A. Quincy Jones was nonetheless instrumental in bringing a casual, outdoor-oriented modernism to middle-class California in the postwar years.

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David Hay, a New York-based playwright who once lived in a house designed by Richard Neutra has always been interested in how architects design homes that promote easy and comfortable social interaction. He fondly recalls sitting in Williams Massie's house late last summer, surrounded by people old and young, as the conversation got funnier and more outrageous by the minute–a tribute to a design that puts humans, with all their wonderful foibles, first.

-Architecture and Automobiles- Architecture Director, The Agency Beverly Hills Vice-President Porsche Club of America Los Angeles Region Specializing in the sale of historic and architecturally significant homes across Southern California, William Baker has represented iconic properties designed by Rudolph Schindler, Richard Neutra, Ray Kappe, A. Quincy Jones and Douglas Rucker, among others. William is widely considered an expert in the field. William’s sold listings have been featured in Architectural Digest, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Forbes, USA Today, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Inside Edition, and many more. An excellent negotiator with an impeccable eye for detail, William is passionate about connecting clients with the right property while identifying the next steward for L.A.’s most treasured architectural homes. Throughout his life, William’s clients, associates, friends and family have looked to, leaned on, and trusted him for his opinion, whether in need of his practical, aesthetic, emotional or ethical advice. His decades of sales, marketing and design experience have equipped him with the skills and know-how to deftly meet and exceed the needs of a discerning clientele. William’s sold listings have been featured in Architectural Digest, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Forbes, USA Today, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Inside Edition, and many more. His 1962 John L. Pugsley AIA-designed home was one of five residences selected for the 2018 Dwell on Design home tour and serves as a beautiful beacon of midcentury design in the unique hillside community, tucked between Downtown and Pasadena. William serves on the Board of Directors and is the Vice-President of the Heritage Square Museum in Los Angeles, is a member of the Los Angeles Conservancy, and is the Vice-President of the Porsche Club of America, Los Angeles Region.

Richard Neutra's 1939 Ward-Berger House, Hollywood CA, L.A. Historic-Cultural Monument #1014

Rudolph Schindler was one of the first wave of modern architects to make their names in America. Born in Vienna, Schindler studied with architectural luminaries Adolf Loos and Otto Wagner, and in the early 1910s came under the sway of Frank Lloyd Wright. He came to the US to work under Wright, which he did in 1918. Wright sent him to Los Angeles to oversee work on his iconic Hollyhock House. He stayed in the city, and in 1922 constructed one of the foundations of Californian modernism, the Kings Road House in West Hollywood. He lived there with his wife and another couple (Richard and Dionne Neutra would later live there with him), making use of many outdoor rooms, a pair of sleeping porches and large studios for each resident. He was deeply committed to the interaction of indoor and outdoor space, a pursuit which defined much of his career. All told he designed some 400 projects, many of which were, and still are, in Southern California, 150 of which were completed in his lifetime.

Julius Shulman was an American photographer famous for his images depicted and celebrating modernism in post-World War II Southern California. Like his contemporary, Ezra Stoller, Shulman shot nearly exclusively with black-and-white film but unlike Stoller, who photographed the great public works of architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, and Louis Kahn, Shulman’s work focused on private residence, including those by Wright and Saarinen but also by architects such as Richard Neutra, Charles Eames, and Pierre Koenig, all of whom designed homes for Arts and Architecture’s Case Study House Program. Shulman himself lived in a modern home designed by Raphael Soriano—and once was almost crushed to death by a landslide that trapped him against his garage. Shulman’s life was captured in the award-winning documentary Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman, by Eric Bricker, and he continued to work until his death in 2009.

California Architectural Appraiser, also Berkshire Hathaway Realtor. Accepted as Expert Witness in Superior Courts. Accepted into "Her Magesty-The Queen's" Royal Courts, London. Appraised or inspected over 200 significant homes. Honored to be selected to provide valuation assistance to the family estate of renowned photographer, Julius Shulman, including his Raphael Soriano- designed/built custom home in Hollywood Hills. Many John Lautner designs, Neutra, Schindler, Niles, Kent, Jonathan Segal, and hundreds more. Have assisted clients from New York to Chicago, Denver, Texas, even Puerto Rico. Also assisting friends & new friends with Realtor services at Berkshire Hathaway HS CA Realty, Westlake Village/Malibu. Watch for our Retro Jazz Trio to pop up somewhere lively, Fine Arts Jazz Group. Dave Brubeck & Vince Guaraldi music live!

Fritz Johnson's core group runs a distinguished architectural practice based in the heart of Honolulu. The design approach Fritz applies is focused on intelligent material choices married to environmentally adept formal strategies. He works in a style that plays with the opportunities and challenges presented by the local climate and that reflects the international cultural influences of the people who today call Hawaii home. Before founding his own studio, Fritz was a designer with NBBJ in Seattle. There he worked on a variety of large, mixed-use projects on the west coast and throughout Asia. In 1997 he joined the renowned international firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates in their New York headquarters, as an integral member of the design teams that worked on educational, commercial, entertainment, and hospitality projects throughout the United States. Fritz's current influences include the west coast modernism of Richard Neutra and John Lautner and the clear, refined work of Singapore-based Australian architect Kerry Hill. Like the architects he most admires, Fritz is motivated by a passionate desire to build in a way that is both of its time and that is rooted in its place.